VP, Global Commerce

Propelis • Chicago, IL

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The VP, Global Commerce leads the practice that owns the commerce end of the system that ties a brief to the creative it produces, the shelf it lands on, and the business result it drives. This role combines vision & operations, building a fully connected practice to compete with SME agencies. The Practice runs live commerce content production and is accountable for the measurement spine that proves it worked. The ideal candidate can sit with a client’s commerce organization as a consultative peer, turning brand and content into performant, spec-compliant, measurable commerce assets at scale across large CPG portfolios and mid-market & retail brand owners.

Requirements

• 10+ years in digital commerce / eCommerce / digital shelf, with meaningful operating depth — not purely strategy or brand-digital.
• 6+ years leading teams; experience building or scaling a commerce capability inside an agency, retailer, or brand.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Demonstrated operating experience running eCommerce / digital shelf content for large CPG or retail brands — Amazon, Walmart, retailer .coms — and the syndication ecosystem.
• Commerce measurement fluency: Retail media data, retailer clean rooms, performance analytics, and connecting content to sell-through.
• Content supply-chain craft: Hands-on credibility with DAM, PIM, syndication, and variant / version management.
• Practical AI literacy: Evaluative fluency with AI-enabled content production and its quality and compliance limits.
• Client-grade commerce credibility: A track record advising CPG commerce clients as a subject-matter peer.
• Practice / P&L leadership: Running a delivery team for throughput, quality, and margin.
• Strong sense of teamwork and matrix management, as Marks operates with a One P&L mindset.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree a plus.
• Modern commerce-agency or commerce-platform background strongly preferred over a generalist brand-digital profile.

Responsibilities

• Practice leadership & growth: Build the bench by recruiting, mentoring, and scaling the team; define the operating model and specialist craft. Grow the offering by converting capability into new business and expanded scope with existing clients, evolving from a North America centric business to global.
• Commerce strategy & client advisory: Own the commerce POV Marks brings to its largest CPG & Retail clients, including digital shelf, retail media adjacency, content supply chain, and the path from strategy and creative to assets to sell-through. Engage as a peer with client Commerce and eCommerce leaders, converting ambiguity into instrumented, fundable pilots.
• Digital shelf & commerce content operations: Lead production end-to-end, including PDP and A+ content, variant generation, retailer feed syndication, metadata discipline, and channel adaptation at portfolio scale. Hold the operating numbers for quality, throughput, and margin. Own the proof loop by connecting brief → creative → shelf → outcome to show what the work moved. Operate the intelligence layer by standing up and running measurement and attribution (retailer data and clean rooms, performance signals, asset-level intelligence).
• AI-enabled production: Build-Partner-Buy, working with Propelis’ in-house technology company, 5Flow, to build and deploy AI tools and integrations with 3rd party tools.

Benefits

• Selection of health care plans with prescription drug coverage
• Dental plan
• Vision plan
• Basic and supplemental life insurance
• Flexible spending account for medical and dependent care expenses or a health savings account based on plan selection
• Short/long term disability
• 401(k) Savings Plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior